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Though a friend of a friend who knows this guy who "knows this guy" I get used box sets for cheap (and no, I won't ever bring up the Cure ever again) the latest was Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century and it's crap.
Okay, it's not all crap for for a original hefty price tag of @$230 it's a goddamn joke. It's pretty much the history of Columbia/Epic records before they sold their soul the evil Illuminati empire known as Sony and this box set covers a lot of ground on 36 (or it is 38?) discs. The whole gamut is here: county/bluegrass. rock, blues, country (traditional and pop), even classical but you can't help but feel something is missing. It's basically not a Soundtrack as it is a greatest hits for their most popular artists such as Micheal Jackson, Springsteen, Miles Davis, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan and even Ozzy. At first you think, "fuck me, this is great! There is so much shit here to be had!" Operative word being shit. For example, Ozzy's 'No More Tears' is edited, as is Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' and yes, with all these endless remasters the sound has been tweaked.
Comes with a booklet which is less historical as it is advertising propaganda. And this box set weighs a mother friggin' ton, too. Still no need to throw the bay out with the Living Color bath water. This does have its moments if you happen to be a connoisseur or aficionado of one-hit wonders such as Jimmy Dean's 'Big John' and Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music', or the Nudge doing 'Cat Scratch Fever' Sony used hits rather than filler which can be a good thing but here it just doesn't work.
I only paid $30 for this and with some of the CD's trashed and the the booklet frayed at the edges I'll take the more obscure numbers out and let this paper weight collect dust on a shelf. Pretty much what it was made for in the first place.
Take me outta here, Jimmy
Okay, it's not all crap for for a original hefty price tag of @$230 it's a goddamn joke. It's pretty much the history of Columbia/Epic records before they sold their soul the evil Illuminati empire known as Sony and this box set covers a lot of ground on 36 (or it is 38?) discs. The whole gamut is here: county/bluegrass. rock, blues, country (traditional and pop), even classical but you can't help but feel something is missing. It's basically not a Soundtrack as it is a greatest hits for their most popular artists such as Micheal Jackson, Springsteen, Miles Davis, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan and even Ozzy. At first you think, "fuck me, this is great! There is so much shit here to be had!" Operative word being shit. For example, Ozzy's 'No More Tears' is edited, as is Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' and yes, with all these endless remasters the sound has been tweaked.
Comes with a booklet which is less historical as it is advertising propaganda. And this box set weighs a mother friggin' ton, too. Still no need to throw the bay out with the Living Color bath water. This does have its moments if you happen to be a connoisseur or aficionado of one-hit wonders such as Jimmy Dean's 'Big John' and Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music', or the Nudge doing 'Cat Scratch Fever' Sony used hits rather than filler which can be a good thing but here it just doesn't work.
I only paid $30 for this and with some of the CD's trashed and the the booklet frayed at the edges I'll take the more obscure numbers out and let this paper weight collect dust on a shelf. Pretty much what it was made for in the first place.
Take me outta here, Jimmy
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